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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.49.30

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 49: Jaṭāyu’s battle and fall. He wrecks Rāvaṇa’s chariot and renews the attack, Rāvaṇa cuts his wings, feet and flanks, Sītā embraces him

In the sequence: he lands on Rāvaṇa's back, claws him, drives in his beak, and tears out his hair

3.49.30

virarāda nakhair asya tuṇḍaṃ pṛṣṭhe samarpayan
keśāṃś cotpāṭayām āsa nakhapakṣamukhāyudhaḥ

He clawed him and, driving his beak into his back, tore out his hair — that bird whose weapons were his talons, wings, and beak.

Words: virarāda — tore, clawed; nakhair — with claws; asya — his; tuṇḍaṃ — beak; pṛṣṭhe — on the back; samarpayan — fixing, driving in; keśāṃś — the hair; cotpāṭayām — and ... tore out; āsa — (did); nakhapakṣamukhāyudhaḥ — whose weapons are claws, wings, and beak

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.